WALLACE STEVENS AND RACIAL MELANCHOLY.
This essay uses Anne Anlin Cheng' s concept of racial melancholy to analyze Wallace Stevens' s poem "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery," arguing that Stevens experiences the frustration of his ambition to be a representative poet when he finds himself confronted with an Africanist presence and i...
| Publicado en: | College Literature Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 385 - 396 |
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